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Tuesday, 5 February 2013

New Release: Exile by Betsy Dornbusch

Today Betsy Dornbusch and Night Shade Books are releasing this new book upon the world, which seemingly is to start a new interesting fantasy series.

Exile

The First Book of the Seven Eyes

by Betsy Dornbusch

Published by Night Shade Books

Book Blurb

Draken vae Khellian,
bastard cousin of the Monoean King, had risen far from his ignominious
origins, becoming both a Bowrank Commander and a member of the Crown’s
Black Guard. But when he is falsely condemned for the grisly murder of
his beloved wife, he is banished from the kingdom and cast upon the
distant shore of Akrasia, at the arse-end of the world.

Compared
to civilized Monoea, Akrasia is a forbidding land of Moonlings, magic,
and restless spirits. It is also a realm on the brink of a bloody
revolution, as a sinister conspiracy plots against Akrasia’s embattled
young queen–and malevolent banes possess the bodies of the living.

Consumed
by grief, and branded a murderer, Draken lives only to clear his name
and avenge his wife’s murder. But the fates may have bigger plans for
him. Alone in a strange land, he soon finds himself sharing the bed of
an enigmatic necromancer and a half-breed servant girl, while pressed
into the service of a foreign queen whose life and land may well depend
on the divided loyalties of an exiled warrior . . .

Exile is the beginning of an ambitious fantasy saga by an acclaimed new author.

Betsy Dornbusch is a
writer and editor. Her books are Quenched, Quencher, Lost Prince,
Archive of Fire, and Exile. Her short fiction has appeared in print and
online venues such as Sinister Tales, Big Pulp, Story Portal, and
Spinetingler, as well as the anthologies Tasty Little Tales and Deadly
by the Dozen. She’s been an editor with the ezine Electric Spec for six
years and regularly speaks at fan conventions and writers’ conferences.
She’s the sole proprietor of Sex Scenes at Starbucks where you can
believe most of what she writes. In her free time, she snowboards, air
jams at punk rock concerts, and has just started following Rockies
baseball, of all things.